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Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by monkmartinez on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:50PM (#25853465)
I was a super MBP user until a few years ago when I got into 3D printing. I started doing lots of CAD stuff and found Windows users... Lots of them. Then I got into CNC at a hobby level and I find most of that tribe is heavily invested into Windows. Looking at the non-hobby level of CAD users, that is, professional engineers who use CAD... I see lots of Windows users.

That is not to say Intel isn't in trouble, but I have exactly zero interest in running MacOS anytime soon. I don't care if the M1 MBP has 15 day battery life. I need a discrete GPU and loads of RAM and I want it in a Laptop, understanding that I need to plug it in after 1 hour. There are dozens of us!

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Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by chrismsimpson on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:01AM (#25855616)
Your issue there isn't so much the hardware, but the software. Any MBP with discrete graphics gives reasonable performance running Windows given the form factor.
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